How to Use wily in a Sentence

wily

adjective

• She turned out to be a wily negotiator.
• This coyote wasn't wily enough to go against Kevin the cat.
  — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 29 Oct. 2021
• For those, Smokey, a wily teenager with a mean side-eye, is the horse of choice.
  — Michelle L. Quinn, chicagotribune.com, 9 Aug. 2021
• This wily Welshman clearly knew where the back of the net was.
  — SI.com, 19 June 2019
• The piece is ready ahead of schedule, and Cox is chuffed with his wily scheme.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 28 June 2021
• But wily coach Floyd Burnsed knows how to get the best out of his players.
  — Joseph Dycus, The Mercury News, 16 Aug. 2024
• The wily kid will not defeat the monster with the aid of magic.
  — Sasha Dovzhyk, CNN, 14 Dec. 2022
• Los Caneleros do have a wily coach who has been around the block before.
  — SI.com, 5 June 2018
• And some in the crotch area because things can get a little wily.
  — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 2 May 2024
• But in the second part, that wily and evasive Durst is gone.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Apr. 2024
• There’s a gangster named Saint Joe (played by the wily Daniel Wu, who the movie could have used more of).
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 18 Aug. 2021
• Enjoy today’s mix of the weird, the wild, and the wily, courtesy of Forbes AI Investor.
  — Q.ai - Investing Reimagined, Forbes, 12 May 2021
• In the bottom of the fifth, after the snow stopped, the Cougars’ wiry center-fielder came to the plate to face the wily Zito.
  — Peter King, SI.com, 13 Feb. 2018
• Now that prices for the fruit are soaring, restaurants have found wily ways to cut costs.
  — Lila MacLellan, Quartzy, 3 Aug. 2019
• The closest to a Brucey B, a wily vet who can also finish big games for you on the floor.
  — Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 8 Apr. 2024
• But the zebras have proved to be a wily bunch, foiling the effort week after week.
  — The New York Times, Arkansas Online, 3 Oct. 2021
• When the plague descends on the island, the wily cook rouses his fellow staff to rebel and take over the mansion.
  — Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 9 July 2024
• And that was Bill to a tee: wily, cunning, self-effacing.
  — Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2020
• The liver, so damaged at that point, hadn’t been able to flush the wily critter from her system.
  — Elizabeth Millard, SELF, 2 Nov. 2017
• Some likened it to a wrestling-style maneuver by the wily Ramos, who appeared to pin Salah’s right arm and roll the forward down to the turf.
  — Steve Douglas, ajc, 25 May 2022
• Spain won the World Cup in 2010 and is full of wily tournament veterans that know how to win.
  — Alex Ward, Vox, 12 June 2018
• Jonathan Smoots will play the wily and eccentric Captain Shotover.
  — Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 Oct. 2017
• Bill Belichick, the wily coach, And gorgeous baby Hazel Roche!
  — Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2022
• Word of the miraculous birth reaches the wily tetrarch Herod.
  — Keith Christiansen, WSJ, 23 Dec. 2022
• While Henne played the role of wily veteran, the first-year phenom Herbert more than matched him.
  — oregonlive, 3 Jan. 2021
• Loyal; wily; moody; sweet; and, in the case of Rocket, an animal.
  — Kelly Conaboy, The Cut, 30 Apr. 2018
• Only time will tell, although that wily Ethan Zohn is off to a pretty good start.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 23 Jan. 2020
• Maybe Kim Jong Un is really wily, and this whole missile thing is just sleight of hand.
  — Kevin Maney, Newsweek, 20 May 2017
• These waters are teeming with life, and while larger species may draw more attention, this wily little fish occupies its own unique niche.
  — Scott Travers, Forbes, 19 Oct. 2024
• Goldman is like a wily, self-justifying Philip Roth invention that asserts a new kind of J’accuse by shaming the court and invoking the pressure of Jewish history.
  — Armond White, National Review, 6 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024